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1 hour ago, PeterScott said:

There'll be a loft ladder somewhere that we can send around. I haven't many W&A pictures ...

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Looks like they took off one of the gate paddles, it was a Wey & Arun original that I rescued from Malham Lock and restored to working order.

I also remember helping make those gates, they came if I remember correctly from the GU at Watford, we took them apart cut off the rot and reassembled as we needed narrower gates and not so deep,  but that was easier said than done the Oak was so well seasoned it was black so cutting and drilling it took a huge effort.

 

I shall attempt to find my photo archive

 

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26 minutes ago, buccaneer66 said:

those gates, they came ... from the GU at Watford, ...

which reminds me of this from earlier ...

On 07/05/2020 at 12:05, PeterScott said:

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.Before the days of volunteers, BW had a paid lockkeepers working and controlling Watford Locks on busy weekends. From 1 June 2002

On 07/05/2020 at 17:02, Ray T said:

I like her Dunton Double (windlass). :D

On this day 2011 I took this picture of our pair of Double Duntons.L1756_20110514_0268.JPG.5a693428365130cc71053b595e01044d.JPG

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6 minutes ago, David Mack said:

 

Hatted back then!

L02452a.jpg.8d0179c991277d95d9caa33485fc5ffe.jpgSame day at a W&A bridge and later at Lordings Lock Waterwheel. This hattedness is a folded square scarf, which preceeded the boatwoman's bonnet and on occasions more generally than canally ones. The first public outing of the bonnet was at the IWA national at Gloucester in 1990L02455.jpg.36c2ffc79c85daa837ffdd8b41a77dae.jpg

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On this day in 2001

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Stalybridge Huddersfield Narrow Canal. Less public inerest here than on opening day  #410 

L0869_20010514_0077.JPG.6a49e97c548a9cb37133e614c9377924.JPG Still lots of unexpected delays on the canal, and we were still going through Scout tunnel at a quarter past ten that evening.

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As time moves on a number of heroes are in danger of being forgotten. When the Rochdale Canal though Manchester was about to be closed, the absence of boat movement over a three year period was a major factor (The Right to Navigate still existed then).

 

Enter Bev Portman and Peter Froud, who got a contract to remove spoil from a construction site. It took them 11 days to get two boats there, travelling about a mile but removing on the way several hundred cobblestones from the locks, a rubbish cart and a milk float.

 

Bev then ran a tripping boat through the city. He is the guy in glasses in the first photo. Civic attitudes stayed equivocal for some time afterwards. Hence the creation of play areas on the Rochdale Canal farther on.

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7 hours ago, John Liley said:

PICT0301.jpg... play areas on the Rochdale Canal...

L04897.jpg.d3616754443535b6d46ac6be8a4e95c7.jpgGosh, and I thought they were things to chain-yer- bike-to. My pic is from Nov 1983, and a little closer to the centre of Manchester.

 

(Child also made an appearance, being more navigationally useful, at  #244.)

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10 hours ago, PeterScott said:

L02452a.jpg.8d0179c991277d95d9caa33485fc5ffe.jpgSame day at a W&A bridge and later at Lordings Lock Waterwheel. This hattedness is a folded square scarf, which preceeded the boatwoman's bonnet and on occasions more generally than canally ones. The first public outing of the bonnet was at the IWA national at Gloucester in 1990L02455.jpg.36c2ffc79c85daa837ffdd8b41a77dae.jpg

Have you been back since then Peter to see the restored section and trip boats?

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8 hours ago, John Liley said:

 

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... Civic attitudes stayed equivocal for some time afterwards. Hence the creation of play areas on the Rochdale Canal ...

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This is the lock below, also from November 1983. I wonder if my playing includes climing up the (slippery) steps in the lock. We could spend the day discussing unsupervised children, water features, discarded bikes, and when attitudes and practice thereto have changed "since the war" or "in my day". Go. A pic with each comment would be nice ?

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9 hours ago, John Liley said:

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Bev Portman ... then ran a tripping boat through the city. ...

 

Closest recent comparison picture is from 28May2019. Those in the earlier picture don't look likely to fall over the wall. Current gongoozlers have the assurance of the glass wall.

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13 hours ago, PeterScott said:

  

which reminds me of this from earlier ...

On this day 2011 I took this picture of our pair of Double Duntons.L1756_20110514_0268.JPG.5a693428365130cc71053b595e01044d.JPG

I suspect a confusion over which Watford

10 hours ago, John Liley said:

As time moves on a number of heroes are in danger of being forgotten. When the Rochdale Canal though Manchester was about to be closed, the absence of boat movement over a three year period was a major factor (The Right to Navigate still existed then).

 

Enter Bev Portman and Peter Froud, who got a contract to remove spoil from a construction site. It took them 11 days to get two boats there, travelling about a mile but removing on the way several hundred cobblestones from the locks, a rubbish cart and a milk float.

 

Bev then ran a tripping boat through the city. He is the guy in glasses in the first photo. Civic attitudes stayed equivocal for some time afterwards. Hence the creation of play areas on the Rochdale Canal farther on.

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And some folk wonder if schools are safe enough to re-open!

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9 hours ago, John Liley said:

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... Bev Portman and Peter Froud, who got a contract to remove spoil from a construction site. It took them 11 days to get two boats there, travelling about a mile but removing on the way several hundred cobblestones from the locks, a rubbish cart and a milk float. Bev then ran a tripping boat through the city. He is the guy in glasses...

 

 

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top of Rochdale 9. Here we are in 2003 for comparison

I thought that would be easier to match: we go through that lock on lots of trips,

but it seems I don't stand on that side, or am steering.

For example from 2007, 2008, 2009, 2019

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This day 2016. Burgundy canal at Vandenesse en Auxois. Only 8 more locks to the summit and a 3.5 km tunnel. The canal was closed in Aug 2015 due to lack of water so we moored in an expensive marina on the R. Saone for that winter and were returning to our usual base on the Burgundy canal. There are 72 locks to the summit from the Saone and 113 down to the R.Yonne so not a popular canal apart from the hotel boats between Dijon and this place. In Vandenesse church yard there are the graves of a Lancaster crew who came down near the village after the big raid on the Nevers marshaling yards.

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1 minute ago, Athy said:

Is it a fault in the photo, or is the dog secured by a length of clothes line tied to his tail? He doesn't look too happy about it.

It’s attached to his collar it’s a piece of white polyprop rope. He has to be tied on when moored or he’s off and the two words he can’t hear are stay and come here.

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9 minutes ago, Dav and Pen said:

It’s attached to his collar it’s a piece of white polyprop rope. He has to be tied on when moored or he’s off and the two words he can’t hear are stay and come here.

Er, that's three words....but thanks for the explanation.

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57 minutes ago, Athy said:

Is it a fault in the photo, or is the dog secured by a length of clothes line tied to his tail? He doesn't look too happy about it.

Actually it appears to be attached to his tackle... which would explain his expression even more clearly.

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4 hours ago, buccaneer66 said:

Have you been back since then Peter to see the restored section and trip boats? [on W&A]

L1363d_20070919_0013.JPG.f3bd443c7c039b24e053341ddce59671.JPGThree visits 2007/09/10 around the time the Loxwood bridge was being built for navigation. A ride on the trip boat is on my list and yet to be achieved.

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I suppose this is an unusual picture in that the bridge parapet was replaced after the locals hated it. The nice Mr google shows both versions rather well here

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